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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03
Natural Born Genius.

To the Editor of the Globe.
! am what people generally call q natural
born genius. ] can study out almost any
thing to perfection that | undertake 10 do
perpetual motion eXcepred). l have a list
on hand, marked out and ready, that would
astonish the natives-some OF them of gigan-
tic merits-but lack in ambition or energy.
My aim is to live comfortably with my family,
but l have no desire for riches. If any of
your readers have an aim for riches mot
fearing that they will be duped) let them
address Honest Jim, in care of GLOBE, for a
list of new things. Many of them would
prove bonanza to man that has good busi-
ness ability None other than an honest man
with the best OF references and full address
need trouble HONEST jim.
Minneapolis, March 2S.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03
want. to Become Famous.

TO the Editor OF the GIObe.
Ny aim in life at present is rather personal.
My entire ambition is TO become famous, In
both business and politics. When / acquire
THIS notoriety, and gain considerable wealth.
L wish to do charity to the poor. highly
prize "a good stage speaker, and 1t appears to
me that possess sufficient capabilities TO be-
come a tOlerably good orator myself. have
fair literary and good business education.
am financially poor but own large tract
OF land a few miles from the city. / highly
appreciate the s'Aims in Life" department. OF
the GLOBE. A. NJ. +.
DEVILS Lake. OAK, March 20.
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Vision of a WOuld-be MOnOpolisI.
Missouri RaDphlcan

Vision Of WOuld-be MOnOpOlist.
Missouri Republican.
IF l owned all the hens in this country"
said the marketman, as he counted out
dozen eggs and put them III a customers
basket, land place to pasture them. l
would ask just ten years in business and I'd
be the boss millionaire"
'How's that?''
"How's that? Maybe you don't know.
young man, that over 90. 600. 900 cackieS
each day, announcing the birth of the same
number of eggs, kept the farmer boys busy
last year gathering in the efforts of IS, 000,-
600 hens. But they did. Well. these eff
forts for 365 days resulted in 5000, 600, 600
separate and distinct eggs, or 500, 600, 900
dozen, as near as l can calculate. Now. it
took just $50, 100000 dozens of these eggs
to supply the demand for Tom and ferries.
puddings hard and soft boiled eggs, egg
nog, and ham and eggs at that.
l figure that thirty cents a dozen.
for 1888. was about the average
price. Thirty cents dozen for 720. 0OO,-
900 dozen climbs up to the comfortable lit
tie purse of S225, 600. 900. There's nothing
mean about me, and if l had the handling
of these offerings of the nations hens I'd
be satisfied with a profit of two cents a
dozen.
Last year must have been a good year
for people visiting in the country, for folks
broiled, fricasseed and roasted something
like 600,000,000 chickens, young and old.
That used up the little balance of 50,000.-
900 dozen eggs. That $4,000, 900 dozen
were turned into chickens that gobbled up
$500, 000.0 of hard-earned coin of this
realm, ciphering the thing down close at SO
cents chicken. / don't deal in poultry.
but from the size of the diamond pins
of the ones that do, l don't hest
tate minute to say that
there can't be less than cents profit
on every chicken they SELL Last year New
York took $4,000, 600 dozen of eggs ia
satisfy her, and she paid SO, 0OO 900 to get
them. Now. New York state only keeps
hens enough to lay about 5000, 900 dozen.
and so, of course, we have to go knocking
around all over the country and part Of
Canada to keep up with the cry for eggs.
1twould take all the eggs that New York.
New Jersey. Pennsylvania and Massa.
chusetts hens are responsible for to supply
this city with all the eggs it wants. The
20, 600, 600 used here last year. if laid in q
single line one after another, without a
hairs space between them, would reach
from Boston to San Francisco. l tell YOU.
there's big thing waiting for some one
who can get corner on eggs
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03
Drop. INTO Poetry.

70 the Editor OF the Globe.
II any aim in life | have,
1t is to be poet
Provided can be convinced
A sheep maybe Il go-it.
But! till Darwin, or some 9TH
En- theorizing granny,
Shall prove outright the sinking goat
Is Mary's little lamby,
| draw the line 'twiXt verse and prose,
And choose perforcc, the latter,
Fen though it breaks my grip"On Spring,
Which is no laughing matter!!
Yours, OSCAR.
ST. Cloud, March 28, 1887.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03
ssOh, MA. Come and See!''
To the Editor of the Globe.

My aim in life is not very high. ! am learn
ing the harness trade, and when get that
finshed-whlch will be In about six months
| want to go to some town and start in busi-
ness for myself, and then / want to get mar
ried. Now, if you know of some good, re-
spectacle girl, tell her to write to me and
will send her my picture. l am German, 20
years old, healthy and good looking; have
black hair and mustache. L have no bad
habits. l only chew and drink beer. but
never get drunk. Whenever the boys in this
town see me going with girl they yell, ''Oh,
ma, come and see!'' after me. Some time l
will tell you why they do so.
EDWARD SwARTZ.
Lake Crystal, Mimi, March 2S.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03
He's All Stove UP.
To the Editor of the Globe.

have got an aim in life, and it is to get
married. l have come from the West. /
punched COWS out there most of my life. but
am all stove up and W ant to settle down. /
amt much on reading and writing, but am
lightning on trails or brands. So, if you
know OF any right smart girl who wants
good man, tell them you know fellow who
don't smoke or chew, but takes drink now
and then. If they have got anything to say
let them say it through your paper.
ST. Paul, March 81. ]. w. STACEY.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03

To the Editor of the Globe.
l accept your invitation and give Eiy aim in
life thusly: aim for-First, wealth; second,
wealth; third wealth. Why? Because, with
out wealth person is OF little consequence
in the eyes of the world-it being the great
lever which moves the universe. Other things
are Il secondary matter compared to it, and
will follow in the wake without much per-
suasion. Yours, etc., PETER THE GREAT.
st Paul, April L.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03

To the Editor of the Globe.
thought would write you this TO ask you
if you could get for me nice little beau. He
must be refined and graceful in his manners
and neatly dressed. No homey person need
apply. NErTIE, Daytons Bluff.
ST. Paul, March 81.
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Leavenworth, KAN, March 80.
would Live on Summit Avenue.

To the Editor of the Globe.
am Is years old, but also have an aim in
life. My aim is to find husband possessing
both riches and beauty. He must have
riches because l could not bear to work.
would like TO live in grand house on Summit
avenue and have two or three girls to do the
housework. He must also be agreeable and
loving, because without love could not live.
He must possess beauty, because l could not
bear homely husband. The young lady who
is writing this is beautiful brunette, with
large brown eyes and pretty little rosebud
mouth, AMI wears elegant clothes. She at
tends school, but has not yet met gentle
man to suit her. A reply to this would be
kindly received by the school girl. D.. c.
st. Paul, March "a.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03
Willing TO Quit Roaming.
N the Editor Of the Gl0he

Looking through your very popular paper,
I see you have kindly given place for people
who have aims in life. 1 am happy to say L
come under that head. My aim in life prin-
cipally is to get rich, married and be happy.
/ have been all over the North, East, South
aud West, but amt very rich, nor do ] see
any show of getting married. But am happy.
I see you have number of young ladies
wishing husbands. If you run across any
body that wants a man 5 feet ii inches in
height. lS6 pounds in weight, quite dark
don't smoke, chew or drink, remember me.
St Paul, March 81. VIM. JAY.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03
will Have a Good Home.
tho Editor of the Globa

TO the Editor OF the GIObe.
am 40 years of age, of Il good, healthy and
hearty frame, sound as dollar. 1 have got
100 acres of good land and am in comfortable
circumstances. The woman who will come to
the front and see me will have a good home
in Big Stone county, Minnesota. She must
be sensible and willing to live on a farm,
where she can enjoy life and have comfort
able home. B. f. LENT.
Clinton, Big Stone County, Minnesota, March
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03
In Far-Orf Washington.

To the Editor OF the Globe.
l saw in your paper under read of "Aims in
Life" a communication from s'School Marin, -
saying if any man could convince her of his
honesty she would reveal her identity to him.
/ am widower, without children; am a work.
ing mechanic [tinsmith); have small shop;
not doing very much, but think able to make
fair living; use neither liquor nor tobacco
nor any profane language; am church mem
Der. IT ''School Mann will write to me will
give her any further particulars about myself
she wishes to know. Yours, etc.,
F. NJ. HALL.
Winock, Lewis county, w. T., March 20.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03
The Hill Can Be Climbed.
To the Editor of the Globe:


You ask everybody to contribute to your
"Ains in Life" henceI shall beg leave to say
a few words in regard to my aim in life. /
am q young man yet, and have always been
DESTROYS Of going to school in order to get q
fair education, which / consider invaluable
and necessary as foundation stone for any
thing you might wish to become, either in
trade, science, literature or art / have taken
fancy to painting and penmanship, and
have often wished to be able to attend
some institution where competent teachers
are employed to teach the ubove-named arts.
used to draw pictures of every description,
even when was not more than 5years old,
and fiatter myself that can copy picture
or photograph pretty correctly, but never
had the means to go to a college or school of
painting. Yet am firmly resolved to do so
after have made some money. / have had
my left leg amputated twice, and must substi-
tute it with an artificial one. About year
ago learned telegraphy, and shall work at
that till l have the means to go to a school
Of painting, etc., j have thought it pretty
hard. lots of times, to fight the battles of life,
and presume that's what lots of young men
who have to earn their own living think. But
no young man with energy and pluck enough
to take hold of almost any kind of work at
first need despair about the future. If we
would follow the examples OF most great men,
who have had TO contend with even worse
contingencies when they first made dash for
the ladder of fame and fortune than most
young men are ever likely to experience, we
must persevere, and sing us we GO along:
"Higher, higher will we climb
Up the mount OF glory,
That our names may live thr ough time
In our country's story;
Happy when our welfare calls
He who conquers, he who falls etc.
Bayard Taylor, the great traveller and
author, made for Europe when only 10 years
old. and. with only $40 in his pocket,
DESTROYS of enlarging his views of the
world, etc. How grandly he succeeded,
after innumeruble hardships, to make
himself famous and revered by all.
Study the biographies of George Peabody,
merchant; Bertel Thorwaldsoh, sculptor;
Wolfgang Mozart, composer; Samuel John
son, author: Oliver Goldsmith, poet ana
writer. and a number of others and you will
find that all were poor when they were young
boys, but that, through perseverance, INDUS
try and an unquenchabe desire to "eut q
| figure" in life. they ut last became famous and
honored among the great names who are rev.
erenced by all the world for their genius and
productions in science, literature and art.
DoRCANIUs NJ. DAwK1Ns,
MontevideO, March 26.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03
Three Com m eudabIe Aims.

To the Editor of the Globe.
/ appreciate your column for ''Aims in
Life, and the earnestness and apparent sim
cerity of its contributors. My aim in life is
threefoli: To get means to start; good,
loving wife and happy home; to acquire q
good practice and enjoy it. am young
(Chrisian) physician, between 20 and 30 years
of age. ANON.
St, Paul. March go
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03
To KILN Tom Cat.

To the Editor of the Globe.
My aim in life is to kill Tom Cut that
serenades under my window every night just
as l have settled myself for a nap. There is
no female feline about my premises and
Thomas knows it. Therefore l am con-
WINGED that he is u malicious cat whose only
aim in life is to disturb respectable people
with his midnight carousals. If this falls
under the eye OF the policeman on that beat
he will confer a great favor OIL the people o
Park Place by killing that Cat. Ought not af
cats found on the streets after II O'Clock bel
arrested and locked up? INSOMNIA.
St Paul March 81
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03
Just as Good as the school Ma RIM.
TO the Editor of the Glnhe

TO the EultOr OF the GIObe.
My aim Just now is to write something tina t
will not be thrown into the waste basket. /
do not consider that it has been my sole am
bition In life to marry; II 80. ! would not be
writing this letter tonight. But time Is
creeping Oh. and what has the future for me?
With the ''log sailor"I would ask, what oppor-
tunities are there for making acquaintances?
As all the ambitious SWANS wanting wives
whose letters appeared In your paper March
q cannot hope to win 1.-The School Marin"
possibly there sare otherso who1 would
like to make just as faithful, devoted u wife
as She. So confess TO you / want home
no matter how humble--and kind husband,
/ care far more for goodness and honesty of
purpose than riches or position in life. May
| mention the letters of A. b. c., Minneapolis,
and e. W. b., Mankato, striking me as being
particularly sensible? HOPE.
st, Paul March rs. d 49, 70. ,.
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She is Frank Aboutit.

To the Editor OF the Globe.
Seeing in your last Sundays GLOBE a de-
partment, ''Your Aims in LIFE thought
that it might be of some benefit to me to
write to you. Ny aim in life is to make a
true and faithful wife to the right kind of
husband, II such can be found am Il years
old and passably good looking, and not a
school marin, having nothing but my hands
to earn my daily bread. would like TO hear
from some young gentleman who is in need
of an honest wife. Sincerely yours,
Saltwater April l. JENNIE STEEL f.
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DON'T wan. TO marry.

To the Editor of the Globe.
My chief aim in life is to do good to those
around me and make the world little better
for my having lived in it. Am prohibition
lst clear through. and believe the saloons
must go. My next aim is to become an ex-
pert stationery engineer and I am "getting
there" as fast as possible. 1 want to geta
position in St. Paul so | can attend your night
schools. Am %, single, and prefer to remain
so. HARLEM.
Grand Harbor, Oak, March 20.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03
SoIiIoquy OF travelling Man.

10 the Editor OF the Globe:
Since your new departure in journalism
have read the GLOBE with increased interest
One becomes tired of the monotony of the
daily list of accidents. murders and wrangles
of the different political factions. conse-
2uently it is indeed refreshing TO rest the eyes
with something new. / remember the time
when your paper was hard TO get hold of out
side the larger cities of Minnesota, but now
thanks to your able management and push
we can get one anywhere, and are treated to
a new bit Of fare. ] am one of those much
lanented travelling men-a tourist, in fact. /
might say. and subject to many inconyen-
fences in lIft. But where / can set my feet
high in air, Il good ten-cent nckle cigar in my
mouth, and IL GLOBE in my hand, | am happy
and don't care q cent whether anything hap
pens or not. The GLOBE news always fits
well TO the dreamy sense of ease one feels
nnder such circumstances. AS traveller.
perhaps have seen and know more abou
other peoples aims in life than my own. Suf-
fee it to say, | have new aims daily, and
tome days have old ones. 100. OF the two
carcely know which is most profit
ale. 1 find, however, it somewhat
depends upon how bright q fellow
has been the day before. ! usually
aim to sell myself rich every day. but the rich
part of il frequently goes TO the customer.
presume this will continue to be the trouble
so long as there arc brighter statesmen on the
road than /. Mother often told me to trust
found it pretty hard work, especially the lat
ter. But feel quite sure it will all come
right some day. She Is the best mother ] ever
had, and If she ever aimed q lie at me yet ]
have not found it out.
Yes, am commercial man; but ] don't
want the ST. Paul school marin, vino seems in
your last to have been in such good demand
dCnt want any girl who so many
fellows are after in the start ~ amt built
that way" Besides am not particularly
handsome, and would be sure to get left at the
finish celebrated philosopher has said:
ITO him that knoweth not the port TO which
he is bound no wind can be favorable" |
have found, after about thirty years of life,
that this is absolutely tue especially from
che sweet time when, as kid, thrashed my
peighbor's kid in his back yard and made q
Decline for home. Under many changed
Giro umstances that port still renal IS, to me.
q sweet iinven OF rest. After serious
consideration ain satisfied the
old Gioek WHO wrote rhe above
tru:sm HI ). ,;,.,c X own pretty well what
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03
To Make the world Better.

To the Editor of the Globe.
My aim is to reach the top of my profession,
steam engineering; also. to live q consistent
Christian life and help forward the great
cause of temperance whenever it is in my
power; In short, try to make the world better
for my having lived in 1t. Yours, etc.
ED CURTIS.
st. Paul, March 25.
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>ray az Home. l.,t,,e Girl.

IO tue vi Tue GlODe.
l will soon be - years old. I am pretty
good singer, and can play on the piano, but
/ play by ear. My mamma wants me to play
by note, but the music teachers says / will
make better musician if they let me have
my own way Of playing. My greatest desire
is to become an actress, and sing and dance
on the stage. Perhaps, through the GLOBE,
can get d situation on the stage. I hope to
get an answer through your paper.
st. Paul, March 81. NJ S. W.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03

To the Editor of the Globe.
In reply to the School Marin, I will state
that / am 81 years of age, can give city ref
erences in regard to my good name, and that
have q farm in Dakota. If she is willing to
&c out there and live on farm would be
glad to meet her. live in good neighbor-
hood near railroad, and if she will make
herself known, l would like to meet her.
Yours truly, GEORGE BROWN,
General Delivery.
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81 a nm the Man,
To the Editor of the Globe.

GLOBE READER: You have been looking
seventeen years for an honest man who
wanted to really marry true, honest wife.
So please look one month more and you may
find him. Please give me chance to see
or at least hear from you. I have also suf-
fered much, and that Is why was attracted
by your letter. Address FL. CASE, City.
ST, Paul March &c. 1870
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03

braided hair reaching below my shoulders;
am five feet five inches In height, and weigh
lao pounds. have always been regarded
self-reliant and competent by.my employers
and have from them always received kind
words aud encouragement 1t is useless,
however, to stitie the longings which enter
tain for some more sturdy arm and heart to
protect me from the crushing cares of bush.
ness life. More suited to my taste would be
the duties of a wife to some such husband as
your "Aims in Life department offers.
st. Paul, March 80. JENNIE.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03
Had N GOOD Many Offers.

TO the Editor of the Globe.
1 would like to have my aim inserted in
your paper. My chief aim is to get good
husbandz-one that is steady, industrious and
sober, not over % years. / am now Is. Have
had a good many offers, but none suit me-
Am resident of st. Paul.
st. Paul, March SO. GERMAN GIRL.
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St. Paul, March 20.
To Chew Gum and whisper.

To the Editor of the Globe:
am a little girl, residing in West St. Paul,
and have an aim IN life as well as anybody.
/ would like to be school teacher; and |
would be very good to the pupils, and allow
them to chew gum and whisper once in a
while. | wish the teachers nowadays would
remember their chewing-gum and whispering
days. And think the board (or shihgle) Of
education should consider this matter. I do
not like going TO school, but think ! would
if these trit1ing privileges were allowed. am
IL years old. EDITH LYNN
West St. Paul, March 80.
-sCandid', Tai Ks interestingly.
TO the Editor of the Globe.
Have read with good deal of interest
your Aims in Life department in to-day
issue, and admire in particular the tone of
the letters of Brant, Rebecca and Martin
Myers; also sympathize with .sSchool Marin -
but could hardly aid her in procuring what
she feels she is most in need of. IT she is
what she says She is, j think if she will
assume more independent manner, at the
same time leaving no stone unturned to
make true friends, make still hunt so to
speak, that she will eventually bag the game
she is after. My opinion based upon expert
ence and observation is, that gentlemen are
weary of nobody so much as the typical hus-
band-hunter, and other things equal the
young lady who is reserved and lust modest
enough not to be distant has much the better
chance OF making favorable impression on
the ''honest mar Of integrity who chances
to be looking for a wife. young lady who
is inclined to be hilarious may seem to have
many admirers, but in most cases 1t is only
Tor the time being. When men look for some
one to help carry their burden
up the hill of life, they want the kind and
| sympathetic nature, which generally accom-
panles the temperament above mentioned.
However, am q firm believer In the doctrine
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She rs Very pretty Herself.


am girl of IL years of age, and am look
ing for a fellow. My last fellow went off last
Sunday afternoon with another girl, and L
will have no more 10 do with him. L am very
particular. for. being very pretty myself, Of
course, want some one awful nice.
St, Paul, Mimi. April l. BELLE.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03
NorCon,ented with His Lot.

To the Editor OF the GI0be.
Discomfort: won Id like to form your ac-
Quaintance / am not contented with my lot,
and perhaps if we could see each other it
might be different. Please write me soon.
Respectfully.
w. E. EDWARDS. general delivery.
st. Paul, March rs.